Panama blonde tarantula
Psalmopoeus pulcher
Name means: “pulcher is Latin for beautiful or pretty”
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The Panama blonde tarantula is a pale grey or beige tarantula with peach-coloured legs. It lives up in the trees. The bottoms of its feet shine blue-green.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Panama and parts of Colombia, in trees and sometimes near people's homes
What does it eat?
Like other tarantulas, it hunts insects and other small animals, and grabs whatever food comes its way.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Panama blonde tarantula about 1.5 km/h (0.93 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its babies are almost all black with orange legs. They slowly change to the pale grown-up colours each time they shed their skin.
2
Grown-up males have long, fluffy legs that look a bit like pipe cleaners.
3
The shiny blue-green bottoms of its feet may help it scare away enemies.
4
It has special hairs near its mouth that it can rub together to make a sound.
5
It has learned to live in places built by people, too.
you asked
Most asked questions about Panama blonde tarantula
?What does the name pulcher mean?
It is Latin for beautiful or pretty.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Psalmopoeus pulcher
- Named by
- Petrunkevitch, 1925
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Psalmopoeus pulcher (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Ltshears. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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